The mum whose toddler was snatched in Primark by two teen­agers cannot move on from the trauma .

Two months on from the abduction, she said she is haunted by the terrifying events.

Her life has been ruined by the 90 minutes of panic she endured before her two-year-old girl was tracked down by police.

The mum told friends: “I am traumatised by the whole ordeal.

“I have tried my best to move on but it still haunts me.

“Those moments of her absence are something I can never get back.”

The mum, in her 30s and from Tyneside, said she is “mentally and emotionally drained”.

She added: “I have had to move and cannot shake the feeling that everyone knows it’s me.

“My only happiness is knowing my daughter is doing fine.”

The girl was snatched from her pram under her mum’s nose in the store in Newcastle city centre.

The toddler’s dad, in his 40s, said his wife has suffered badly.

He said: “The effect on her has been very significant.

“Yes we got our daughter back. But for us it doesn’t end there. The thing that disturbs both of us most is not knowing what happened to her in the time she was with those two girls.”

He added: “When she was taken, her hair was in braids and when she was found it had been taken out of the braids and was in one big bunch. It means she had been played with and that is a very disturbing thought.”

Officers found the toddler and her kidnappers, aged 13 and 14, in a park three miles from the Primark store. A tablet computer in the sisters’ possession at the time contained the online search term “poor little thing getting kidnapped and raped”.

The sisters pleaded guilty on Tuesday to kidnapping the toddler, and are due back at North Tyneside youth court for a sentencing hearing on July 4. A charge that the abduction was sexually motivated was dropped.